Izabela is vacationing in Mauritius ,Africa (June 12)and captures a video of at least 2 of the teams performing a roadblock with crew in tow~My husband and I witnessed a Roadblock on June 12 while we were holidaying in Mauritius. ..the couples started showing up between 10-11am - the first two were very close to each other.The detour involved kayaking out into the ocean. Not sure what they did out there but they were gone for about 1/2 an hour on average. From memory the first team to arrive was all female,the 2nd a guy and girl - all quite young. They completed the task in that order but the leading team got about 5 minutes in between them. We counted 5 teams in total. The black female team were in the top five but unfortunately last. We saw the Asian guy but he was off on the side drinking water and cooling down so we cannot actually remember if we saw him with his partner. The black woman who did the kayak was a bit overweight and I'd guess not the fittest - she nearly died after that one! One final point - there were 6 kayaks on the beach - perhaps a FF meant someone avoided this task?on another forum ,Izabela describes the teams a bit differently.We counted 5 couples come and go within about an hour..the couples we saw were a youngish all-girl team (winning), [Dustin/Kandice]2nd was another young couple (a guy and girl), [Rob/Kim]there was the token black couple, [Lyn/Karlyn]an asian looking couple, and [Cho/Bro's]a geeky looking couple.The black woman who did the kayaking was absolutely exhausted after the kayak ride and fell on her butt after getting out of it.I should clarify the above point. She really look p*ssed off and the pair of them weren't in much of a hurry - but we noticed that couples were held up for a couple of minutes and given water before running off to continue the racemore from Izabela posted at sucks

and more posted by Izabela @ sucks Don't forget only the male is asian in that team and the female is what I call my token "Lori".I would give them a good 20 mins after the 3rd team which was the young m/m team.The young m/m team arrived 10-15 mins after the leading couples. This 3rd team seemed to catch up some time with this roadblock but still left 3rd. -----------------------------Izabela:Hi !

We got the pic before the filming as all the crew ran off to tape the teams coming in We were at Merville Beach Hotel which is near Grand Baie (sp?) top part from memory No the teams were too busy to talk to LOL No we dont know where they went next all we heard was "pit stop" but could not make out where due to the helicopter noise above (which I think you can hear through the whole video).

I found this diving map that shows the approximate location of Merville in relation to Grand Baie. And this official map (pdf; 3.6 mb) shows the whole island in detail (use the zoom in your pdf reader); Grand Bassin looks like it's the dead end of the "tea trail" road through Grand Bois and Bois Cheri.

vidcaps going here ( last to first is the order )Voice: On the next Amazing Race Mary & David Conf: we've made friends in this race and it's well worth a million dollars or more .In a heartbeat I would sacrafice this race for the friends I made.* Airport,Kuwait *Barbies: here comes Bama.Dustin Conf: its not in our best interest to help Tyler & James but I was really kind of like " the Bama girls to me today !?"Barbies: their with us today.Lyn: no you can't DO THAT!Tyler: oh wooooLyn: cause ya'll being pushy and you just pushed them infront of us!Barbies: they were already rude to us.We're not going to miss their friendship because there was never one to begin with. Lyn:do whatcha want to do,if you could live with that on your conscience.Tyler & James are like WTF?* Rob & Kim *Rob: can't get the car into gear.Kim: alright you don't have to yell at me I'm just tellin you.Rob: theres a lot of pressure for me to get this car going right nowKim: don't give up .Rob: I know I'm not giving up..you NEED..Kim: Just ..just go! Just do this! Rob: I'm done* Rob exits the car and hits it with his fist *Rob: Damn it I'm out of here dude!* Highway , street scenes *Chos: just try to get there as fast as you can.Tyler James: we have no idea where were going.Barbies:Oh God ! *fender bender* are you OK? Voice: on the next Amazing Race ...

RealityAmazing Race 10Several of this seasons contenders look like they can go the distance,but who knows if leg 7 of the race will be lucky (i.e. ,a non-elimination ) for the tardiest team of the night .( This show contains the info you'll need to crack one of the challenges on Gold Rush)

You gotta wonder about the fender bender. I'm sure they hit something, but there may have been some staging after the fact. Looking at it frame-by-frame, it looks like the cameraman used a rapid zoom and a sideways movement to make it look like the two collided. The first cap show the relatively undamaged bus, the second shows a curious bus rider.The obvious question: how did the cameraman happen to be outside the car filming when the accident happened? It reminds me of the semi-staging of Mirna's little bender in Bariloche.

The Mauritians like to dress up their traffic circles. Here's one (kmz attached) shaped like a compass. The roundabout in the promo cap may be possible to find; half of GE Mauritius is high-res, half is fuzzy.

A vast majority of the roundabouts (especially the decorated ones) run in a string down the main highway though, from Grand Baie through Port Louis into the fuzzylands. My guess is that the one we're looking for is along the same highway, on the way to Plaisance Airport (southeast corner of the island).

I don't see anything on the less developed eastern flank... Too little traffic to warrant traffic circles, much less pretty yin-yang or rocket-shaped ones!

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Found out that Neobie in Chinese means "f*king awesome"! No, really. Look it up!

Pickles? :hallo3 One reason why Mauritius is a pleasant place 2 live is that we r a multi-racial country and an Indian wedding in Mauritius is sure not something to miss as it gives the opportunity to explore various aspects of pure Mauritian life... firstly, there are those old women singing in Bhojpuri, all the pickle-making processes and the endless bickering about how things should be done.

City: 1m resolution for most cities in North America and Europe, and many other cities around the worldLocal: 15m resolution is widely available across Europe and North America and for many other regions around the worldNational: 30m resolution is available for most countries in the worldInternational: 100m resolution is available for the whole world

But somehow it doesn't work with my comp. :hallo1 Maybe yours work. :hallo25

Since the photo isn't captioned it's not very useful, but there's a matching viewpoint to Izabela in a Flickr set that includes Merville beach (source). On another topic...maybe the "insane food challenge" is in Mauritius, not Kuwait?